שבירתן זו היא טהרתןBreaking as Purification

sheviratan zo hi taharatanIn Gamatria ↗

What breaks is also what gets cleansed.

Why not emanate the points already repaired? Vital answers that the intention was to bring out the shells (klippot), which the world needs so the righteous can be rewarded and the wicked punished. So the vessels were made unable to bear their light, and in breaking their dross separated: 'their breaking is their purification'. The lower seven also came out as separate pieces, like the 'ten utterances' of Avot 5:1. Damage from human sin then reaches only the part it touches, and the lights can withdraw instead of being harmed at the root. For the same reason the upper three were held back.

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